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2118R

Edward Steichen

Bivange/Luxembourg 1879 – 1973 West Redding/Connecticut

Greta Garbo, Hollywood. 1928

Vintage. Gelatin silver contact print. 24,3 x 19 cm (25,3 x 20,2 cm) (9 ⅝ x 7 ½ in. (10 x 8 in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Edward Steichen. Greta Garbo, Hollywood. 1928.

Estimate:

EUR 40,000

 

- 50,000

USD 54,400

 

- 68,000

Sold for:

37,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 215-221

Modern and Contemporary Photographs, Wednesday, 27.11.2013

Information

Vintage. Gelatin silver contact print. 24,3 x 19 cm (25,3 x 20,2 cm) (9 ⅝ x 7 ½ in. (10 x 8 in.)). On the reverse inscribed in pencil by various hands: „Greta Garbo. Hollywood", „V. 7. Sept. 1930" and numbered: „125" (encircled), „3525" as well as „58/a8".

Formerly collection Joanna Steichen

Edward Steichen, Ein Leben für die Fotografie, ed. in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Düsseldorf 1965, unpaginated, ill. 124
Geschichte der Photographie 1839 bis heute, George Eastman House Rochester, NY, ed. by Therese Mulligan und David Wooters, Cologne 2000, p. 549
Joanna Steichen, Steichen's Legacy, Photographs, 1895-1973, New York 2000, ill. 213 (plates unpaginated) Edward Steichen, Ein Leben für die Fotografie, ed. by Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing, Ostfildern 2007, p. 8

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